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Liyu Wu
Painter
Taiwan
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Liyu, Wu was born in 1968. She grew up Taipei, Taiwan, where she lives and paints out of her studio in Taipei.
She attended the Chinese Culture University, Department of Fine Arts in Taiwan, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Western Painting. She received her Master’s degree from the Taiwan Normal University, Department of Fine Arts. She completed her PhD Doctoral studies at the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China in 2014.
Her exhibition record includes many solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout Taiwan. And also in South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, mainland China and other worldwide regions. She has received many awards both at home and internationally. And she has served as a lecturer at Hsuan Chuang University, in Taiwan.
Her most recent exhibitions have been in: Paris France, China, Canada and Taiwan.
Her paintings are about the new modern Taiwanese women living in their rapidly changing world that embodies a new pace both fast and exciting. They are colorful, magical scenes of life. These women flaunt gorgeous clothes, beautiful jewelry, and a mysterious charm, which creates a fantasy scene of dreamy colors and emotions.
This series of works uses a large decorative expressive style of painting, which produces a gorgeous baroque style. The women are elegant, gorgeous, with delicate graceful faces, wearing a wealth of gorgeous jewelry and many frilly, flowery items. Their dresses are intriguing, beautifully patterned costumes, which create a dramatic theatrical effect.
And yet within this enjoyment of a new life there is slight hint of confusion in their facial expressions, a bit of an alluring fantasy in their smiles, this affect produces a strong mystique. The dancing light from the brushstrokes used to create these mysterious women creates a dreamlike world.
These paintings are of women living a new life, a fantasy life of fun, freedom and mystery.
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